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My friend Sharon and I had just settled at our table and ordered our dinner and drinks when she steered our conversation toward Christopher Nolan’s latest opus.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

The Sagrada Família is the magnum opus of the brilliant Catalan architect and designer Antoni Gaudí, who died 100 years ago and whose sinuous and eccentric buildings are synonymous with Barcelona.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

The orange blossom had already become the state flower in 1909, and, by 1967, a year after McPhee’s opus, the orange was the state fruit.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

But through Bad Bunny, Puerto Rico had something to say: He tapped into his unique star power with his zeitgeist-defining magnum opus, his 2025 album “Debí Tirar Más Fotos.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026

Darwin now rushed to finish the monumental opus that he had originally intended to publish with all his findings.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

When Pete Townshend debuted “Tommy” for Cohn in the late ’60s, the rock opera lacked that same sense of immediacy.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026

“Her collaborations with visual artists and choreographers and with opera and theatre directors demonstrate the freedom with which she relates to literary expectations and rule systems.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

In the mid-1970s, he had a recurring role as soldier Martin Gimbel in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale Farm.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

On a longtime quest to democratize opera, Koelsch invited Martínez Celaya to the Chandler for a walk-through.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Of course, the opera, like everything else, totally failed to entertain the elf.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

Two summers ago, the most overt commonality shared by Greta Gerwig’s and Christopher Nolan’s opuses was a release date pitting the predicted box office whales against each other.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2025

Still, there would be no “Sonata Pathétique” without Prince Lichnowsky’s purse strings, no Sistine Chapel without Pope Julius II, no bold young talents like Corbet making their worthy magnum opuses without someone footing the bill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024

The movies surrounding it are all spectacles of one kind or another: superhero opuses, space operas, historical and biblical epics.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2022

He’s also known for taking excessively dull subjects, like concrete and water, and writing fascinatingly about them in magnum opuses for The New Yorker.

From Golf Digest ● Apr. 1, 2020

His opuses are in demand And are the final test By which all others fall or stand In this the mighty west!

From Hoosier Lyrics by Eugene Field